Khalid al-Juhani

Khalid al-Juhani (1975-12 May 2003) was a member of al-Qaeda who was one of the men responsible for the Riyadh compound bombings of 2004, a suicide attack.

Biography
Khalid al-Juhani was born in 1975 in Saudi Arabia, and at the age of 18 (1993), he left for Afghanistan to fight for the Taliban against the Northern Alliance militias during the Afghan Civil War. He spent three years (until 1996) fighting in Afghanistan, and until 1999 he fought in Chechnya against the government of Russia and their puppet regime in Chechnya. Juhani's stress faced in Afghanistan left him mentally ill, and he soon turned to jihad.

He was later hired as a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaeda. In 2001, when the United States invaded Afghanistan, he and Saleh al-Oufi fled to Yemen, and Khalid swore to carry out a shahid suicide attack. This was the first time that the government suspected him of any wrongdoing, and in 2003 he left for Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Angry at the stationing of United States troops in Saudi Arabia since the 1991 Iraq War, he launched a suicide attack on the Vinnell Corporation Compound in Riyadh and two other compounds frequented by Westerners. 39 people, including al-Juhani, were killed in the bombing.